Country’s fisheries and cattle sector used to be badly tormented by the floods in August because the accrued lack of the sector stood at Tk2,327 crore.
“The devastating floods for the length of the month of August brought on an immense loss in agriculture and furthermore in the fisheries and cattle true thru the country. The loss in the fisheries sector used to be Tk1,899 crore while it used to be Tk428 crore in the cattle sector,” Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter acknowledged this while revealing the success in the first 100 days of the present interim authorities at a press conference at her ministry.
In the fisheries sector, the adviser acknowledged the devastating floods brought on hurt a total of 1,97,166 ponds and hatcheries along with 1,07,517 tonnes of fish and cramped and 44 crore fish fries in 88 upazilas below 13 districts true thru the country.
In cattle sector, the estimated accrued loss used to be Taka 428 crore the place 2.60 lakh cattle heads, 8,000 buffaloes, 93,000 goats, 10,000 sheep, 34.21 lakh poultry, and 4.60 lakh ducks possess died in the floods.
Furthermore, the floods furthermore brought on loss of life of 39,000 cattle, 16,000 goats, 21 lakh poultry flocks, 2 lakh ducks, the adviser knowledgeable the click briefing.
Even the floods furthermore affected nearly about 7,82,000 families of farmers true thru the country, per a ministry liberate.
Below the flood rehabilitation programme, Farida Akhter acknowledged the Division of Livestock Services (DLS) has disbursed 220 tonnes of cereal animal feed, 75 tonnes of straw, 357 tonnes of silage and 60,000 grass cutters while the distribution of animal feed among 12,000 farmers by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) remains underway.
Even the Ministry of Catastrophe Administration and Reduction has disbursed Taka 35 lakh among the farmers of the flood affected areas for getting animal feed. The FAO has taken a programme to present 75kg of cattle feed to each of 8,233 cramped farmers.
The authorities has furthermore disbursed fish fries among the fisheries farmers at more cost effective rates from the authorities fish manufacturing hatcheries.
Below the programme, a total of 51 tonnes of fish fries at a price of over Tk2 crore were released in the ponds of 8,488 beneficiary fish farmers at 88 upazilas below 12 districts.
The stutter-owned Krishi Bank and other non-authorities micro-credit distribution companies were requested to distribute credits among the affected fish farmers below straightforward phrases and circumstances.
Further fisheries and cattle secretary ATM Mostafa Kamal, additional secretary Syeda Nawara Jahan, Bangladesh Fisheries Pattern Company (BFDC) Chairman Suraiya Akhter Jahan, Division of Livestock Services (DLS) Director General Dr Mohammad Reazul Huq, Further Director General of the Division of Fisheries (DoF) Dr M Abdur Rauf and other portion officials among others attended the click briefing.
